Strikeforce ‘Diaz vs. Cyborg’ Prelims: Moore KOs Coy in Second

Nate
Moore bounced back from a trying first round to finish his
fight early in the second, as he knocked out Nathan Coy
just 25 seconds into the second frame of their preliminary
welterweight matchup at Strikeforce
“Diaz vs. Cyborg” on Saturday at the HP Pavilion in San Jose,
Calif.

In the first round, Moore nearly took Coy’s back and appeared to be
in total control. Coy turned the tables as the round wore on,
however, using a dominating front headlock to dictate the action.
The
American Kickboxing Academy product then dropped for a kimura,
but Coy defended it well before landing some solid
ground-and-pound.

Round two was over as quickly as it started, as Moore stiffened up
the
Team Quest representative with a sharp right hand and followed
with another big shot on the ground, forcing the referee to
intervene.

Meanwhile, Isaiah Hill
submitted Bobby Stack
with a triangle choke just 62 seconds into their lightweight
contest. The victory snapped a six-fight winless streak for Hill,
who had not won about in nearly four years.

Hill held nothing back from the get-go, launching a spinning heel
kick followed by two potentially fight-ending flying knees. Stack
dived for a single-leg takedown, and, after a considerable
struggle, he managed to put Hill on his back. His triumph was
short-lived, however, as Hill cinched a speedy triangle choke to
seal the deal and earn the win.

AKA representative Ron Keslar
scored the night’s first submission, as he finished Eric Lawson
with a first-round armber 1:57 into the match.

After the pair tied up in the clinch to start, Keslar immediately
took Lawson’s back when the fight hit the floor and trapped one of
his opponent’s arms, a la B.J. Penn. From
there, Keslar transitioned to a triangle choke attempt but
eventually isolated Lawson’s arm, cranking it for the
submission.

Though Webber closed the distance and took the fight to the floor,
de Randamie used an attempted triangle choke to return to her feet.
Once she recovered her vertical base, de Randamie landed a nice
punching combination followed by knees from the clinch that spelled
disaster for her opponent.

On an undercard filled with quick finishes, James Terry
followed suit, as he stopped Lucas
Gamaza at 3:26 of the first frame.

Terry dominated the fight on the feet, staggering his opponent with
combinations. Though Gamaza proved resilient, Terry was too much
for him to handle. He landed a big counter right hand and finished
the bout with punches to a turtled Gamaza’s head.

After delivering an early onslaught of knees from the clinch,
Castillo was pulled into Gellner’s guard. Though Gellner attempted
multiple submissions, Castillo kept herself safe. In the second
stanza, Castillo again exploded on the feet, stunning Gellner with
a right hand and then crumpling her with a pair of knees for the
finish.

This item was updated at 1:19 a.m. ET to correct information on
de Randamie. Tonight's fight was not her MMA debut, as Sherdog.com
had reported.